Tesla worth £70,000 suddenly bursts into flames in scrapyard full of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys
A £70,000 Tesla burst into flames at a scrapyard full of other luxury cars.
Dramatic footage showed the blackened ruins of the electric car as firefighters work to extinguish the raging blaze.
The Tesla Model S had been left at a high-end vehicle dismantler yard in Rancho Cordova, California.
The £700k vehicle had been reportedly been salvaged from the Florida floods and taken to the scrapyard where it sat for three months.
However, on Wednesday the car “spontaneously caught fire,” according to the Sacramento fire department.
It was “surrounded by millions of dollars in salvaged vehicles including Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys” and wasn’t able to be moved, the firefighters explained.
Users online had plenty of theories over the cause of the fire, which many said was due to damaged lithium batteries being sat in the heat for too long.
On Instagram, one user wrote: “Lithium ion batteries in cars are much more dangerous than Internal combustion engines.
“Unlike a motor engine that can easily be extinguished, a battery remains hot and dangerous for hours on end in the event of a fire.”
A second said: “It’s been sat in the heat for months.”
“That fireman will be there a few days, nothing on the planet can put out a lithium battery,” another chimed in.
A fourth saw the fire as a warning: “When is everyone going to wake up and realise just how dangerous these electric cars are compared to their alternatives.”
It comes as a Tesla worth £44k burst into flames after allegedly self-combusting on residential street last month.
Eugenio Mereu, 36, who owns an identical vehicle watched on in horror as the blaze engulfed the electric car.
He added he couldn’t see anything that may have caused the fire, leaving him fearful that his Tesla could meet the same fate.
Earlier this year, a Tesla Model 3 burst into flames just minutes after the owner got behind the wheel – and what caused it is a mystery.
Texan Ali Hasan picked his electric car up from a body shop but just 10 minutes later he says it started smoking.
Fire took hold and the vehicle ended up being a burnt-out ruin sitting on the side of the road.